President-Elect Arias Announces
His Cabinet
President-elect Oscar Arias
Sanchez, as expected, announced
his cabinet for the new
administration to take office on
May 8. The new government will
be made of 18 ministers, of
which 13 are men and five are
women.
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President-elect Oscar Arias
announced his cabinet yesterday,
made up of 18 ministers, five of
which are women.
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20.000
Expected For The Labour Day
Protest
Monday is May 1 and in Costa
Rica like in most of Latin
America, it is "Día
Internacional del Trabajo" or
labour day, a national holiday.
Fixed
Line Telephone Rates Going Up
Get ready for an increase in
telephone rates. Yesterday, the
Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE), the state
monopoly on telecommunications,
made a request to the Autoridad
Reguladora de los Servicios
Públicos (Aresep) for a hike in
telephone costs.
Outgoing
Deputies Scold President Pacheco
Over 2002 Election Campaign
Irregularities
Closing the 2002-2006
legislative session, deputies
took one last stab at president
Abel Pacheco, scolding him for
irregularities during his 2002
election campaign, which was
never cleared up.
Job Wanted
When the Ministro de Trajabo
(Minister of Labour) Fernando
Trejos announced "Job Fair",
that begins today at 12 noon and
carries over to tomorrow,
president Pacheco, tongue in
cheek, asked him whether there
was any company looking for a
psychiatrist, since the current
head of state will join the
ranks of the unemployed as
of next May 8.
Life
Sentence
A
court in Atlanta, Georgia,
served a life sentence to James
Vincent Sullivan, a businessman
who had hid in Garabito, on the
Costa Rican Pacific coast, after
paying a gunman to murder his
wife in 1987.
Ortega
Accuses US of Interference
Former Nicaraguan President and
presidential candidate Daniel
Ortega on Thursday accused the
United States of interfering
"openly and barefacedly" in his
country´s elections.
US Still
Meddling in Nicaragua Election
Political analyst Aldo Diaz
predicted that US Ambassador to
Nicaragua Paul Trivelli will
step up his pressure in a bid to
unify the rightwing forces for
the election against the
Sandinista National Liberation
Front (FSLN)
Morales
and Chavez in Cuba
Bolivia's President Evo Morales
and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez are
starting Friday a visit to Cuba
and will be welcomed by
President Fidel Castro.
Bolivia
Leader Touts Cuban Healers
Bolivia´s President Evo Morales
praised Cuban physicians´
quality and their cooperation in
health.
Caribbean Transport Comes
Together
Geographical proximity is the
biggest treasure of the Greater
Caribbean in its integration
desires and also an obstacle
that dissolves with the
remarkable advances in the
cooperation deals in air and
maritime transport.
EDUCATION-LATIN AMERICA:
A Great
Opportunity
The
countries of Latin America and
the Caribbean should take
advantage of the fact that they
have achieved virtually
universal primary education, and
that the school-age population
is shrinking, to better orient
funding and improve quality,
according to United Nations
experts.
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